Smelling of rubber, William Gerwick's ebike is in its own little way making a new era of biomed-ical research possible. The power-assisted bicycle on the other side of his desk in Sverdrup Hall gets the pharmaceutical chemist/biochemist from the door of his new office at Scripps Institution of Oceanography up the steep hill to the University of California, San Diego main campus, past perennially clogged parking lots, and to the front door of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in 12 minutes. To coast back downhill, it takes only about eight minutes.
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